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even though i it has been how it shaped my thinking of over the past few years. I'm going to quickly turn over to Jenny. Yeah, thanks for sharing that. So like you, Echo, my first identity that I put down was my gender, being a woman. and I think you and I, we all know why you know gender is such a salient topic, especially if you are a woman in this country. um And then the second one was Korean American. And then the third one, I actually have four. So the third one is My profession. Sorry. That's okay. Your third one is. ah My profession as a researcher, my identity as someone who does research. I think that's a really salient thing for me. And then the fourth one was immigrant. So like like on paper, like I was born in the US, but I don't have the same upbringing as most Asian Americans in that I moved around a lot. I grew up. you know, in Jamaica, Korea, Hawaii, Hawaii is the US, but like, has its own unique differences that is different from mainland US. And so that's what's salient to me. And those are the four identities that I think I probably think about on a regular basis. And you also travel a lot, Jenny, like not saying that has anything to do with immigrants state status, is but um I just feel like those two are also go hand in hand with each other that